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> Ironically, Zig is a programming language that's probably best written by LLMs, since they can tolerate actually tolerate the verbosity.

Rust in my opinion feels the same.

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I have found LLMs struggle with Rust's constraints - they are optimized to produce code that passes the tests, not necessarily good code. So instead of working out lifetimes and borrowing, it will be happy to copy a buffer many times without thought. This means I have to still go through line by line to review and often rewrite either by hand or with another LLM iteration.

There may be some prompting that can help with this but I suspect there is a fundamental tension between writing working code vs good code in LLMs. Go is popular for being simple, making it easy to jump in and write something fast and stable - minimizing the gap between working and good code probably helps out the LLMs a lot.

> There may be some prompting that can help

Sounds like a good time to tell Claude to create a system wide memory of how to implement lifetimes and borrowing and what to NEVER do.

Claude will then make the memory file. Usually memories help a lot. I see it think about it when it reasons through code.

Agree. But just because it feels the same doesn’t mean it compiles the same.

I don’t feel the verbosity with Rust. Haven’t written it in a while but now in the LLM era I’m looking forward to saying “sort out the lifetime errors for me”.

I trust a lot more Rust code generated by an LLM than anything else ngl.

That can often depend on how you write it.

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